Year 5 Wet ’n’ Wildlife Adventure day at Colwick Park, 30th March 2016
The year 5 children went to the Colwick Park Adventure Centre on the 30th March. There were three activities to take part in: climbing, orienteering and canoeing. The children had to be resilient when it came to facing their fears!

​Graphic Novel Exhibition 20th May 2016
On Friday the 20th of May, the year five children shared their graphic novel work with the rest of the school. To complete their projects, they had to:
- plan and write a 5 paragraph adventure story
- convert the story to graphic novel format by planning how best to represent each sentence with a picture
- make all the artwork for the graphic novel
- design a computer game based on the story and write an advert for it
The exhibition was very successful, with visitors including staff, children and parents.

The children in Year 5 have been learning about the history of slavery in the United States of America. Lataya produced this piece of writing independently, at home, having been inspired by the stories of the struggles of the slaves and their daring escapes from their enslavement.
This piece of writing contains the techniques we have been studying in class:

• Fronted adverbials of time, place and manner
• Description of emotions, using various methods 

The task was to use skills learned in art lessons to create a short stop-frame animation depicting an aspect of the solar system.
Success criteria:

• The animation must be realistic, based on fact
• The animation should include shading
• Groups must work collaboratively

Objective:
Write a brochure to inform people about a newly discovered planet and persuade them to visit.
Grammar objectives:
Use a fronted adverbial for comparison.
Use a relative clause to add more information about the subject of a sentence.